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A. Anil Kumar |
"Partnering with industry, government and academia on developing enabling technologies for future communication systems."
Title: Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Phone: (936) 261-9909
Fax: (936) 261-9930
Email: aakumar at pvamu.edu
Office Hours: Open door policy
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Education:
B.Sc., Physics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 1971
M.Sc., Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 1973
Ph.D., Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1978
Current Research:
Project XLR8 - A High School Redesign Program, funded by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2005-2013)
NSTI - NASA Science and Technology Institute - Collaborative Initiative between Prairie View A&M University (Co-PIs: Dr. Sukesh Aghara and Dr. A. Anil Kumar) and Texas Southern University (PI: Dr. Alamelu Sunderesan) (2011-2014)
Partnership for Innovation In Education
Teaching Schedule, Fall 2012 (Office Hours)
Teaching Schedule - Previous Semesters
Fall 2011
Spring 2011
Fall 2010
Current Research:
Project XLR8 - A High School Redesign Program, funded by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (2005-2013)
Most Recent Research:
Small Business mentoring Program, funded by EPA, DARPA through the SEA (1999-2006)
M.S. Theses supervised:
- A Theoretical Analysis of p-n Junctions with Non-Uniform Doping Profiles, Cletus Udoye
- Vector Quantization Modulation (VQM), Million Woldesenbet
- High Temperature Superconductors - Applications in Telecommunications, Ming-Fang (Kate) Zhang
- Communication Systems Simulator (CSIM) - A Novel Program for Simulating and Evaluating Modern Communication Systems, Adriana Caceres
- Image Compression Techniques For Digital Image Libraries, Mayra Caceres
- Estimation Of The Channel Transfer Function Using Higher Order Statistics (HOS), Anowarul Huq
- Bone Conduction Headset Development, Gerardo Novelo
- Electromagnetic Compatibility Simulation Laboratory (ECSL), funded by Motorola, Inc. ('96-'98), Singhquaverton Madden
- Circuit Simulation & Analysis In The Presence Of Fatal Faults, Nadine Hobson-Bonamy
Software/Hardware Systems Developed (Potential for Commercialization):
- CSPIFF - Circuit Simulation Program In the Presence of Fatal Faults for reliability and fault-tolerance of large scale electronic systems
- CSIM - Communication Systems Simulator for simulation of arbitrary communication systems
- BCHS – Bone Conduction Headset – a novel communication system designed for NASA-JSC and demonstrated at Inspection’99
Past Research: (Mostly in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics & Telecommunications)
